Kansas City, Mo. — Tigers manager AJ Hinch was talking last week about the Tigers' upcoming series in Minnesota and offhandedly remarked that maybe the Twins will trade Nelson Cruz by then.
Well, about that. The Twins did, in fact, trade Cruz. To Tampa Bay. But the slugger is not completely off the Tigers’ radar this season.
“Nelson Cruz isn’t on our docket for next week, so good job by the Rays,” Hinch said before the Tigers played the Royals Saturday. “Except we’ve got seven games with Tampa (in September). So we just kind of kicked the can down the road a bit in dealing with him.